Job ID: 5073

Entity: AXA XL

Senior Test Lead

Gurgaon/Bangalore, India

The Senior Test Lead will be responsible for driving quality engineering strategies, processes, and standards for company’s diverse suite of business applications, ensuring they meet the high-quality standards.  This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and lead the cultural shift in testing practices leveraging the best test tools, technologies, processes and framework to deliver a consistent and market leading testing service to the Enterprise applications.  The candidate will lead our quality engineering efforts with a major focus on test automation and building robust technical capabilities within our organization. The ideal candidate will drive innovation in testing practices, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and develop scalable automation frameworks that enhance product quality and delivery efficiency.

What you’ll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Define and execute the vision and roadmap for test automation and quality engineering excellence across the organization.
• Design and implement scalable and maintainable test automation frameworks that support various testing needs, including functional, regression, and performance testing within Global Technology.
• Drive adoption of automation tools and practices to improve test coverage, reliability, and speed and ensure automation strategies align with business objectives and technical standards.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing quality engineering team with a focus on test automation and foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
• Review and assess vendor provided test automation proposals and solutions ensuring it meets organizational standards, requirements, best practices and are cost efficient.
• Negotiate and manage contracts with vendors, ensuring that service level agreements (SLAs) are met and that vendors deliver high-quality testing services.
• Cultivate the culture of continuous testing by ensuring that automated tests are seamlessly integrated into the CI/CD pipeline, providing continuous feedback on the quality of software builds.
• Develop and implement strategies for integrating AI into testing processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to enhance the test automation capability and improve efficiency across organization.
• Help estimate new testing work requests and manage estimates against actuals to ensure change controls are appropriately managed and budgeted.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of quality engineering activities, using data-driven insights to inform decision-making.
• Prepare and present progress reports to TCoE management and other AXA XL stakeholders as required.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to quality engineers, helping them develop their skills and expertise in test automation and quality engineering.
• Identify the training requirements within the organization to help enhance the technical capabilities throughout the Quality Engineering teams.

You will report to Test and Release COE Lead.

What you will BRING

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Effective understanding of software development methodologies, including agile and waterfall model.
• Extensive experience in test automation, including the development and implementation of automated test frameworks.
• Experience in building and leading high-performing quality engineering teams.
• Proven experience in vendor management, including vendor selection, contract negotiation, and performance monitoring.
• Extensive Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit, TestNG).
• Experience in implementing the GenAI based solutions to optimize testing processes.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Good understanding of performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling etc.
• Effective understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and microservices architecture and their best testing approaches.
• Experience of using Devops tools such Dockers, Kubernetes, Grafana etc.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with property & casualty insurance lines of business and products will be add on.

Who WE are

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Learn more at axaxl.com

What we OFFER

Inclusion

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.   At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity.  AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Total Rewards

AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.

We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.

Sustainability

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

Our Pillars:

• Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society – are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature – from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard – by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
• AXA Hearts in Action:  We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day – the Global Day of Giving.

For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability.